Romain Gary Quotes

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• When a war is won, it's the losers, not the winners, who are liberated.
• Disease-carrying thoughts swarm and multiply in the dark and twisted labyrinths of our minds, and all that is needed is a mob and a good…
• I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of…
• With maternal love, life makes a promise at dawn that it can never hold. You are forced to eat cold food until your days end.…
• The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.
• I sat day after day in my little room, waiting for inspiration to visit me, trying to invent a pseudonym that would express, in a…
• A writer's subconscious is one of the filthiest places there are: as a matter of fact, you can find the whole world there.
• There is more to Jewish history than Auschwitz.
• Gari in Russian means "burn!"... I want to test myself, a trial by fire, so that my I is burned off.
• If there is something that opens horizons, it is precisely ignorance.
• Literature is greater than any of us, dammit.
• Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality.
• ...the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in
• Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him.
• I've had a lot of fun. Good-bye, and thank you.
• I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so…
• They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior
• Sometimes I have the feeling that we live in a dubbed movie and everybody moves their lips but the voices don't correspond. We are all…
• As long as you live, you hope. You think that everything will just...get better.

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